One question neither side can answer to my satisfaction...
Why fight like cats and dogs over it? LOL
Because a company turned sh*t into gold.
If 80% of body heat goes out the top of your head why are there so many bald men? Evolution should make all people have thick hair on their heads ..... why can’t evolution answer that?
Because DDT was outlawed by leftists.
If EVOLUTION is logical, they most of these things shouldn’t exist under ‘Darwin’ either.
You're arguing that squids are more highly evolved?
In answer to #8 - the reason for malaria is the banning of DDT ....
Try Bud Dry.
Intelligent design is just an attempt to develop a scientific method that can detect design. That’s it. The author of these questions seems to think that intelligent design is the belief that humans were designed, and have remained, as perfect as possible. But that’s not what intelligent design is about.
Oh, are you the author? Feel free to reply then.
I can answer #7.
Because people in industrialized nations eat lots of wheat and wheat gluten which has been proven to cause Celiac disease which is an auto-immune disorder that leads to other diseases such as Chrohn’s or asthma. (Approx. 1 in 120 people affected and don’t know it.)
www.celiac.com (for those who doubt me)
People who are not in industrialized nations, don’t eat the pre-processed crap that we do! Garbage in - garbage - out!
Bottom line: just because your opponents say idiotic things, doesn't mean that you cannot also say idiotic things.
Just to make the point more rationally: the fact that undeniably designed things eventually wear out, does not alter the fact that they were designed.
There is no reason that both ideas can’t coexist.
Believe what you want you’ll find out in the end or not.
8. Why does malaria still kill over a million people each year?
Dr. Michael Behe has a good extended discussion of malaria in The Edge of Evolution that underscores the fact that evolution can only produce trivial changes. Malaria and attempts (natural and engineered) to fight it present an excellent case study in understanding what evolution can and cannot do. It is clear that the malaria pathogen itself is a designed organism. It's just minor features within the genome that are varying to produce various features such as antibiotic resistance, and that generally due to degeneration of a design feature.
Of course, it's not like evolutionists actually asked their opposition about this list before publishing it. They just make things up and imagine it must be so. Sigh...
So I guess his point was that God should have created a perfect universe instead of one with flaws.
I am no huge fan of ID, but philosophically this guy’s argument is garbage.
What if it even included a manual on how it was made?
How do you know that the Designer can’t answer these?
Number 16. If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Because you're doing it wrong.
2. Why did Dr. Heimlich have to develop a maneuver to dislodge food particles from people’s wind pipes?
He didn't have to do it at all. I don't recall anyone forcing him to develop this technique.
3. Why does each of your eyes have a blind spot and strong a tendency toward retinal detachment? But a squid whose eyesight is just as sharp does not have these flaws?
Because squids don't get whacked on the back of the head as much as we do.
4. Why are depression and obesity at epidemic levels in the United States?
Because our faith in God has declined and without God too many people are also without hope.
5. When Europeans came to the Americas, why did 90 percent of the Native Americans die of European diseases but not many Europeans died of American diseases?
Because the Native Americans were not explorers and were not exposed to the panaoply of disease that the Europeans were exposed to. Consequently the Euros had more robust immune systems.
6. Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?
Not all pregnant women get morning sickness.
7. Why do people in industrialized countries have a greater tendency to get Crohn’s disease and asthma?
Because living a more natural lifestyle is healthier than living in a box in a polluted city. Duh.
8. Why does malaria still kill over a million people each year?
Because of Rachel Carson. That bitch.
9. Why are so many of the product Depends sold each year?
You'd rather people go back to pissing their pants?
10. Why do people given anti-diarrheal medication take twice as long to recover from dysentery as untreated ones?
Because anti-diarrheals treat a symptom and not a cause.
11. Why do people of European descent have a fairly high frequency of an allele that can make them resistant to HIV infection?
This is just question #5 rephrased.
12. Why do older men often have urinary problems?
Because we're designed to die.
13. And why do so many people in Austin get cedar fever?
Because they live in Austin. Duh!
2. Why did Dr. Heimlich have to develop a maneuver to dislodge food particles from people’s wind pipes?
Because God gave us the choice to be stupid enough to put something in our mouths too big to swallow.
4. Why are depression and obesity at epidemic levels in the United States?
Because God gave us the choice to eat too much, and the choice to worry about little things that really don’t matter.
6. Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?
To tell them they are pregnant before they start showing?
8. Why does malaria still kill over a million people each year?
Because the enviro wackos lied to get DDT banned.
Here’s one. If Darwin is right about survival of the fittest then why do humans dominate the earth? We are the only species that does not follow that guideline.
We take the most care of our poor, young, elderly, indigent, sick, unintelligent, injured, crippled, etc etc. All other species would have eaten them or left them to the wolves.